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Description
Olivia Shorter, wife of Baxter Shorter, at the trial of Barbara Graham, Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo. Barbara Graham, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins were convicted of the murder of Mabel Monahan in 1953, during a robbery attempt in her home, and were executed two years later. John True and Baxter Shorter participated in the robbery. Shorter confessed when arrested for another charge, and was kidnapped and murdered by Perkins and Santo. Photo appears with article "Trial in Shorter kidnapping ordered," Los Angeles Times, 27 May 1953: 4. Text from newspaper caption: DESCRIBES KIDNAP --- Mrs. Baxter Shorter pointed out Emmett Perkins in court as man who abducted her husband at gunpoint. Perkins was held without bail.
Type
image
Format
b&w negative
Identifier
C1429_b173_80492-15_frame_1 ark:/21198/zz00256cq1
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Trials (Kidnapping)--California--Los Angeles Shorter, Olivia, 1916-1968 Monahan, Mabel, 1888-1953
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